Re: Child EA account cannot start Madden 21 on PS4

Will that still allow him to keep any Rookie Premier players that he obtained in Madden 20?

My son's EA account is attached to mine and so he has not got an email address associated with EA and so I cannot connect his EA account to a new PSN.

Same problem here.

Is there a better answer for this question?

Did anyone find a solution to this? My son got Madden 21 for Christmas and he can’t connect to EA servers. We’ve tried re-installing the game and checked internet connection, etc. My account works fine though, and his account has no problems on Madden 20.

I have not been able to solve this problem. Very disappointing; many free games have better support than this. 

I went to hell and back trying to solve this problem for my son. For whatever reason, madden 21 or EA or whoever is very sensitive when it comes to minors playing this game (IF) they are under 13 years of age. The only fix to this problem is to log in as the family manager account. Then go to Family management in settings and create a new user. Make sure that you create the account as an "Adult Account" and make sure the age you enter is at least 13 years or older. I just put the birth date in as 2000 to be safe. Once you create this new account, all of these problems will go away. Just know you will have to go to gmail and create a new gmail email for this new user. It was a total pain in the arse but this works.

I was thinking of doing the same but it sucks that we even have to do that. I am the parent, not EA, I will decide what is right for my child. Hate that he has not been able to enjoy his Christmas gift to it full extent yet.

Unfortunately, this is the only solution. My son is 12 and football is life. It annoys the crap out of me that we have to jump through these hoops. Like you said, "I am the parent." Put the options in game for Christs sake, don't make the error message completely irrelavent to the actual problem. That is just terrible communication to consumers. 

Same problem with my 12 year old. Hours on the phone and chat. EA support had me disconnect the 12 year olds account and reconnect as a work around. Didn't work and he lost all of his Madden 20 MUT points and progress as a result and the problem still is not resolved. Total BS - unacceptable.

The only solution is to create a new adult account through family manager. Unfortunately, he or she will lose any progress as it is a new account. I mean this isn't Grand Theft Auto for Christ's sake. It's a football game. The only access they have to anything inappropriate would be through chat while going head to head. Simple solution, disable it in the settings. The error message saying you have to sign into the PlayStation network to basically sign into EA is NOT the problem. It is an age restriction issue. Never again will I create a minor account. There are so many stupid hoops to jump through like this that it is more trouble than it is worth.

Has anyone found a real solution for this? I just looked at my sons EA account and it says my birthday and that hes an adult? not sure where they are getting the child account thing from 

I think it’s based on the child’s age on their PlayStation/console account. I called EA support and they said right now the only solution is to let them play on an existing or new adult account. It’s ridiculous. Isn’t the point of these age restrictions to let the parent decide what’s best? Not the game company? It’s particularly annoying since my kids had zero problems with playing other Madden games, but now they can’t play this one. 

Is sony able to help by changing the birthdate of an account? I haven’t been able to get through to anyone because of the holidays